[Lowfer] Not exactly [Lowfer, but does anybody remember...

[Gedas V]

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On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM J D <listread at lwca.org> wrote:

> Thanks to Pete for posting the links. They are documents I already had,
> along with an article from Radio-Television News from April '44 that
> described the studio setup of the network and the coverage-limiting
> antennas.  But the fundamental questions about the 50 W rigs remain:
>
> > Did the 50 W transmitter gear have a regular Signal Corps
> > part number? (That alone would help searches!) Are there tech manuals,
> > schematics, or any other specs?  Who made them, for that matter? Were
> > they built to task, or were they customized low-fi comms gear?
>
> All these would have been installed in 1943 or early 1944 prior to
> D-Day. After that, AFN expanded across northern Europe at the speed of
> battle and needed to cover larger geographical areas, without any need
> to protect innocent civilian ears outside of England from exposure to
> contamination from American radio customs and musical influences.  AFN
> mobile stations used the venerable BC-610 mounted in trucks and equally
> portable studios to both broadcast in the upper part of the AM band to
> troops in the European theater of operations, and (via shortwave) to
> relay news reports to London for retransmission to all parts of the
> globe. When a liberated region was considered stable enough, then more
> permanent local facilities were commandeered, renovated, and/or
> installed. These operations are better documented than the early
> low-power ones, though.
>
> Thanks to anyone who can provide more info.
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